Do Jack and Gwendolen Get Married?

Jack hugs Gwendolen joyfully, knowing they can finally be married. Jack tells Lady Bracknell he has learned "the vital Importance of Being Earnest."

Who gets married in The Importance of Being Earnest?

In The Importance of Being Earnest, Miss Prism and Dr. Chasuble challenge the social order by ultimately yielding to marriage based on love instead of marrying for social rank or wealth, as most of the older generation espouses.

Are Jack and Gwendolen cousins?

Jack turns out not to be the son of some random rich merchant (which would anger his potential mother-in-law, Lady Bracknell), but a legitimate aristocrat. In fact, he's Lady Bracknell's nephew and Algernon's older brother. This makes him Gwendolen's cousin as well as lover. ... So Jack/Ernest and Gwendolen get together.